{"id":11765,"date":"2015-01-13T21:44:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T21:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greensideup.ie\/?p=11765"},"modified":"2015-03-15T18:27:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T18:27:23","slug":"vegetable-soup-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/vegetable-soup-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Year, A New Start and A Healthy Vegetable Soup Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Vegetable<\/p>\n

Every year, almost without exception since I was a young teen, I’ve started a weight loss campaign in January that has been almost<\/em> successful. Come October or sometimes earlier, all the weight that was hard lost starts to creep back on until another Christmas has passed and I’m back to square one, or worse, the dial has crept up even further on the scales.<\/p>\n

It’s all so very well telling us that yo-yo dieting is unhealthy but will someone please tell me how to keep the damn weight off that I manage to lose every year so that I won’t yo-yo? It’s not like I deliberately do it. It’s just that after a while, after the quiet start to the year passes and life gets busier and stress levels raise, the initial\u00a0motivation goes and the hand starts to reach for the enticing chocolate bar at the garage forecourt once again. This year however, I’m hoping things will be different. This year Mr G and I are taking our weight loss back to basics.<\/p>\n

Hairy Dieters<\/h3>\n

No, not us, the two hairy bikers on the TV. By chance Mr G and I were channel hopping the night before we were about to start ‘being good’ and we came across the Hairy Bikers talking about their calorie counting diet that enabled them, under medical supervision, to lose three stone each<\/em> in three months<\/a>. We watched three episodes that night and while we did so, I remembered I had an unopened Hairy Dieters recipe book tucked away on the shelf and promptly dug it out<\/a>. Oh my, this was our kind of grub! Stews and pastries, pasta and vegetables; page after page of easy to follow recipes that we knew everyone would enjoy. We compiled a list of family dinners there and then for the coming week:<\/p>\n